Isometric Star Charts

[daltoncalford]

Originally posted by J Greely:
I searched the Dragon CD-ROM collection, which includes everything up to August 1998, and couldn't find it. I did find Marc Miller's official rules for adding milk bottles to Traveller, but nothing about 3d subsector maps.

-j

I don't know what issue it was, but, for an idea of the time frame, I was still playing D&D from the origional boxed set and they printed numbers on the back cover for the players to cut out and use as chits for random numbers......

I am sure that the dragon magazine was still in double digits (issues 60 through 90).

Dragon used to have alot of non-d&d material including articles on runequest and other such things.

It was a one page article with a sample sub-sector on it.

I was hoping some old timers may remember it.

thanks anyways

Dalton

 

[Malenfant]

Are you sure it was Dragon and not some other mag like White Dwarf? (which in the old days did IIRC run non-Games Workshop articles)

EDIT: Do a scan through this list (search for "Traveller" using your browser's "Find in this page" function). There are some Trav articles mentioned there (in issues 35 and 51, at least). Maybe that might ring some bells.

 

[Malenfant]

Are you sure it was Dragon and not some other mag like White Dwarf? (which in the old days did IIRC run non-Games Workshop articles)

EDIT: Do a scan through this list (search for "Traveller" using your browser's "Find in this page" function). There are some Trav articles mentioned there (in issues 35 and 51, at least). Maybe that might ring some bells.

 

[Malenfant]

Are you sure it was Dragon and not some other mag like White Dwarf? (which in the old days did IIRC run non-Games Workshop articles)

EDIT: Do a scan through this list (search for "Traveller" using your browser's "Find in this page" function). There are some Trav articles mentioned there (in issues 35 and 51, at least). Maybe that might ring some bells.

 

[MadGav]

There was an article in White Dwarf regarding 3D star mapping in Traveller (somewhere around issues 60-80, I think). However, the article proposed stacking the regular sub-sector maps (or possibly a slightly shrunken map) in order to introduce a third dimension. I don't think there was any "tilting" involved but I suppose if you overlay hexagons on top of one another then it can look isometric.

MadGav

 

[MadGav]

There was an article in White Dwarf regarding 3D star mapping in Traveller (somewhere around issues 60-80, I think). However, the article proposed stacking the regular sub-sector maps (or possibly a slightly shrunken map) in order to introduce a third dimension. I don't think there was any "tilting" involved but I suppose if you overlay hexagons on top of one another then it can look isometric.

MadGav

 

[MadGav]

There was an article in White Dwarf regarding 3D star mapping in Traveller (somewhere around issues 60-80, I think). However, the article proposed stacking the regular sub-sector maps (or possibly a slightly shrunken map) in order to introduce a third dimension. I don't think there was any "tilting" involved but I suppose if you overlay hexagons on top of one another then it can look isometric.

MadGav

 

[RobertFisher]

You know, I think that milk bottle article should've been in Book 0.

 

[RobertFisher]

You know, I think that milk bottle article should've been in Book 0.

 

[RobertFisher]

You know, I think that milk bottle article should've been in Book 0.

 

[Wayne]

You should have given a warning about the Milk Bottle article. That is one of the funnier articles I read for traveller in some time, but I now need to whip the coffee off of my monitor.

 

[Wayne]

You should have given a warning about the Milk Bottle article. That is one of the funnier articles I read for traveller in some time, but I now need to whip the coffee off of my monitor.

 

[Wayne]

You should have given a warning about the Milk Bottle article. That is one of the funnier articles I read for traveller in some time, but I now need to whip the coffee off of my monitor.

 

[ScottB]

Originally posted by Dalton:
Does anyone remember the article and can point me to it, or better yet, have a copy?

I vaguely remember an article somewhat like what you describe, but IIRC it was actually for the Starfire wargame rather than Traveller. I believe it was in the Ares section, which was Dragon's sci-fi section for a few years after SPI went belly-up.

Dragon did have some occasional Traveller stuff; in addition to the articles mentioned, one issue (my brain says 57*, but I don't have the issue to check any more so that could be way off) featured a sci-fi short story with Traveller stats, and also a pretty decent Traveller adventure setting - the planet Exonidas, recently ravaged by a nuclear war on one of its continents and now the subject of a massive peacekeeping effort.

I also vaguely recall that Roger Moore (the Dragon editor, not the actor) had an article on Dwarves in Traveller at one point. Might even be the same issue.

* Edit - just checked the page Malenfant referenced, it was actually issue 59. So I was close. Cool cover:

http://members.aol.com/gamepicks/tsrdm059.jpg

 

[ScottB]

Originally posted by Dalton:
Does anyone remember the article and can point me to it, or better yet, have a copy?

I vaguely remember an article somewhat like what you describe, but IIRC it was actually for the Starfire wargame rather than Traveller. I believe it was in the Ares section, which was Dragon's sci-fi section for a few years after SPI went belly-up.

Dragon did have some occasional Traveller stuff; in addition to the articles mentioned, one issue (my brain says 57*, but I don't have the issue to check any more so that could be way off) featured a sci-fi short story with Traveller stats, and also a pretty decent Traveller adventure setting - the planet Exonidas, recently ravaged by a nuclear war on one of its continents and now the subject of a massive peacekeeping effort.

I also vaguely recall that Roger Moore (the Dragon editor, not the actor) had an article on Dwarves in Traveller at one point. Might even be the same issue.

* Edit - just checked the page Malenfant referenced, it was actually issue 59. So I was close. Cool cover:

http://members.aol.com/gamepicks/tsrdm059.jpg

 

[ScottB]

Originally posted by Dalton:
Does anyone remember the article and can point me to it, or better yet, have a copy?

I vaguely remember an article somewhat like what you describe, but IIRC it was actually for the Starfire wargame rather than Traveller. I believe it was in the Ares section, which was Dragon's sci-fi section for a few years after SPI went belly-up.

Dragon did have some occasional Traveller stuff; in addition to the articles mentioned, one issue (my brain says 57*, but I don't have the issue to check any more so that could be way off) featured a sci-fi short story with Traveller stats, and also a pretty decent Traveller adventure setting - the planet Exonidas, recently ravaged by a nuclear war on one of its continents and now the subject of a massive peacekeeping effort.

I also vaguely recall that Roger Moore (the Dragon editor, not the actor) had an article on Dwarves in Traveller at one point. Might even be the same issue.

* Edit - just checked the page Malenfant referenced, it was actually issue 59. So I was close. Cool cover:

http://members.aol.com/gamepicks/tsrdm059.jpg

 

[aramis]

Exonidas Starport: Dragon, March 1982, pages 33-48. Adventure for traveller.

Also good was a robot system in the march 1982 issue.

(these two are no longer in their mags, pulled out and in my Beltstrike box... I used them that much!)

 

[aramis]

Exonidas Starport: Dragon, March 1982, pages 33-48. Adventure for traveller.

Also good was a robot system in the march 1982 issue.

(these two are no longer in their mags, pulled out and in my Beltstrike box... I used them that much!)

 

[aramis]

Exonidas Starport: Dragon, March 1982, pages 33-48. Adventure for traveller.

Also good was a robot system in the march 1982 issue.

(these two are no longer in their mags, pulled out and in my Beltstrike box... I used them that much!)